From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-08-22T04:33:23+09:00
Subject: Re: What New Language After Ruby?

Very interesting thought, Mauricio.  I think there was an article in
either IEEE Computer magazine or the ACM Communications whether computer
language should mimic human language or vice versa.  I think it is a very
interesting subject, if we can tell a computer what to do instead of how
to do it.  I had that kind of thought to specify system configurations
before I came to Tcl, then Perl, then Python, and now Ruby.

Bill
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Mauricio Fern?ndez <batsman.geo@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Come on... He's a Pragmatic Programmer, not a Utopian one :-)
> Japanese would be more like "one language per decade" :) (and I probably
> fall short)

> You'll soon have to answer such things as "is it worth switching to
> Japanese if I know Ruby" or "can Japanese be embedded in a C application";
> the responses could arguably be yes in both cases :-)

> Maybe we should have a FAQ:

> * Who's behind it? Is it ready for prime-time? 

> Japanese is a time-proven, industrial-strength language. It is actively
> used by more than 120 million people worldwide. It is little known out
> of Japan but it is much more used there than Python, Perl and even C/C++!
> It is also a very general language, suitable for any application you can
> think of!

> We don't know who's the current maintainer, but who needs one, anyway?
> (rest deleted)